NHTSA Probes Fatal Texas Crash as Finland Mulls FSD Approval

A fatal June 22 Texas Model 3 crash has triggered a fresh NHTSA special investigation into Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system, compounding an existing federal defect probe. The incident follows rapid early-June approvals in Denmark and Belgium that built on the Netherlands’ April clearance, only to be undermined by a Reuters exposé on misleading safety data and Sweden’s push for an EU-wide ban over the speed-exceedance feature. While Finland’s transport authority signaled possible pre-October approval on June 23, the crash intensifies U.S. and European scrutiny and threatens to delay Tesla’s autonomy monetization timeline.